Courses

Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class extends understandings of the representational conventions used by the design professions through its introduction to the possibilities offered by emerging digital techniques for the depiction of designed artifacts and environments, allowing students to extend and enhance their understandings of advanced practices for design visualization, representation, and communication. Coreqs., ENVD 1004, 2001. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class extends understandings of the representational conventions used by the design professions through its introduction to the possibilities offered by traditional techniques for the advanced practices for design visualization, representation, and communication. Prereqs., ENVD 1004, 1052, 2001. Coreqs., ENVD 1104, 2003. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 1004, ENVD 1052, and ENVD 2001. Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class examines the traditional representational conventions used by the design professions to depict and describe space, form, pattern and information. Uses a multi-disciplined approach that explores the three basic intentions that inform the marks that designers make: visualization, representation and communication. Prereq., ENVD 1004. Open to nonmajors on a space available basis. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Introduces the use of computers in design fields, including applications for word-processing, desktop publishing, graphic creation, and Cad-style design. Aims to provide basic general skills in computer use that are transferable to other computer applications. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Focuses on construction and use of computer-based information systems to represent and manipulate geographic data. Emphasizes the recording, mapping,and transforming of data for analysis and use by planners. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

The nature of design and systematic methods for improving design. Topics include: nature of design problems; structure of design process; theory of form; problem definition; generating solution ideas; evaluation; roles of form and function. Students use computers without having to learn to program. Open to nonmajors.

Introduces students to the technical and practical aspects of making photographic images: the workings of the camera and lens, principles of depth of field, black and white film processing, printing, and basic darkroom procedures. Open to nonmajors on a space available basis. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Surveys existing and emerging computer methods used in the environmental design professions, with an introduction to computer programming. Open to nonmajors with instructor consent.

Explores topics of current interest in planning. Looks at the development and social consequences of the neighborhood movement, forms of municipal and regional governments, regional settlement patterns, and new communities. Introduces selected methods from the social sciences used by planners and urban designers. Prereqs., ENVD 1102, 1104, 2003. Coreqs., ENVD 2120, 3124. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 1102, ENVD 1104, and ENVD 2003. Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Explores principles and uses of computer graphics in design. Topics include creation and modification of complex two- and three-dimensional objects; orthographic and perspective views; use of color; input using mouse and digitizer; output using screen, plotter, matrix printer, and slides; automated aids for form generation and manipulation; and analysis of current and future trends of computer usage for design. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prereq., ENVD 1052, 1102. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Illustrates color media techniques for the preparation, composition, and presentation of landscape and built environment drawings. Prereq., ENVD 2130. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Provides an introductory computer programming course designed to teach the capabilities of a computer in providing graphic representations of environments, including buildings. Open to nonmajors.

Introduces the integration of computing and the architectural design process and related representational tasks. Studies common computer-aided design programs, emphasizing two- and three-dimensional and animation techniques. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Offers a seminar on imagination and creativity in environmental design. Students research and prepare a class presentation and paper on a topic of interest. Open to nonmajors at all levels.

Introductory course creating interactive web sites. Covers use of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Flash to create linked pages containing text, images animations, menus, and buttons. Covers principles of site navigation, page layout, and graphic design for designers and planners. Credit not granted for this course and ENVD 2352. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Offers an advanced course dealing with theories of imaging and methods of improving imaging in the design process. Open to nonmajors.

Illustrates techniques of graphics communication and presentation for architectural design. Includes advanced delineation and use of color. Prereq., ENVD 2130.

Focuses on working with a variety of alternative photographic processes intended to give students an array of photographic techniques to incorporate into studio course presentations and portfolio work. Processes include hand-applied color to black and white images, using two or more negatives to produce black and white combination prints, shooting color slides to produce graphic arts, high-contrast black and white prints, and documentary photography of Colorado architecture and urban landscapes using color slide film. Students must provide their own 35mm SLR camera. Prereq., ENVD 3022 or ARTS 2191 or instructor consent.

Introduces the mechanics of entering 2-D images and 3-D objects into the computer. Once entered, graphics are interactively rotated in space, walked through, and displayed in perspective from any position. Also covers the mechanics of other computer programs allowing additional manipulation of images and objects. Prereq., ENVD 2130.

Offers an advanced course dealing with theories of imaging and methods of improving imaging in the design process. Open to nonmajors.

Covers development of an architectural set of construction documents combined with job administration, field observation, and guest speakers from related construction and architectural disciplines. Prereq., ENVD 2130. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Provides an advanced seminar on special issues in design communications. May be repeated for credit by petition. Prereq., ENVD 2130. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.

Topics include animation and environmental simulation, computational methods of technical evaluation and optimization, and computational mapping and analysis. May be repeated for credit by petition. Prereq., ENVD 2130. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Architecture and Planning majors only.